Usually means: Killing of one's own child.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. filicide: Merriam-Webster
  2. filicide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. filicide: Collins English Dictionary
  4. filicide: Vocabulary.com
  5. filicide: Wordnik
  6. filicide: Wiktionary
  7. filicide: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Filicide, filicide: Dictionary.com
  9. Filicide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Filicide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. filicide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Filicide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. filicide: FreeDictionary.org
  14. filicide: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. filicide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. filicide: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FILICIDE: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. filicide: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (filicide)

▸ noun:  The killing of one's own child.
▸ noun:  A person who kills his or her own child.

Similar:
pedicide, infanticide, parenticide, familicide, matricide, aborticide, felicide, regicide, feticide, malicide, more...

Opposite:
parenting, nurturing, protecting

Adjectives:
maternal, paternal, accidental, altruistic, parental, human

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Similar:
pedicide, infanticide, parenticide, familicide, matricide, aborticide, felicide, regicide, feticide, malicide, more...

Opposite:
parenting, nurturing, protecting

Adjectives:
maternal, paternal, accidental, altruistic, parental, human



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